Patient education and counseling
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To translate a measure of physicians' communication skills, the Four Habits Coding Scheme (4HCS), into German, to examine its psychometric properties, and to analyze its association with the OPTION Scale, which assesses physicians' shared decision making (SDM) behavior. ⋯ The 4HCS can be used in research and medical education. Further studies are necessary that investigate SDM within the context of communication skills.